WAUSAU, Wis. – A Wisconsin Appeals Court ruled that the teenager charged in the rape and murder of 10-year-old Lily Peters in Chippewa Falls can be tried as an adult. This January, a Chippewa County judge ruled that Lily’s cousin, Carson Peters-Berger, who was 14 at the time, be tried as an adult. The boy’s attorney appealed. A three-judge appellate panel, which sits in Wausau, agreed with the local judge. The panel said the gravity of the crime should not be depreciated by Peters-Berger being tried as a juvenile. Peters-Berger was arrested a few days after Lily’s body was found along a wooded path in April 2022. She had been walking home.

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